2022 - Teamsters Local 464 News

If I were to describe 2022 in a phrase, I’d say it represented getting back to business.  After tackling Saputo’s bargaining in late 2021, we turned our attention to the Earth’s Own/Happy Planet negotiations and hammered out a heck of a deal there, with the support of a great bargaining committee and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) and the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE).

Teamsters Canada held their Convention in Montreal in June, with all Canadian Locals participating.

We also were able to arrange a fabulous, in-person Shop Steward...

Teamsters Local Union No. 464 is proud to announce that 464 member, Wenkui He, has been selected as one of the five recipients to receive a $2,500.00 Teamsters Canada Scholarship.  Congratulations!

Teamsters Canada - Scholarships 2022

WENKUI HE, LOCAL UNION 464

VALENTINE WU, LOCAL UNION 31

CHARLENE PUCHE, LOCAL UNION 213

PIERRE CHARLOT ALEXANDRE, LOCAL UNION 1999

WINSTON WRIGHT, LOCAL UNION 938

Teamsters Local 464 celebrated its second annual Charity Golf Tournament at Golden Eagle Golf Club, on Sunday, September 11. On behalf of the Local, its Executive Board, and staff, I would like to congratulate the prize winners and thank our sponsors, the membership, and our friends who helped to make our Tournament a success. The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is a worthy charity, and they were pleased to receive a donation from our Charity Event.

Fraternally,
Paul Barton
Secretary-Treasurer
Teamsters Local Union No. 464

As a society, it is important to always look ahead, always trying to make our world a better place whether socially, environmentally, spiritually or what have you.

As commendable as these pursuits can be, it is important to keep an eye on our past as well, as we can learn greatly from where we’ve been to ensure we know how to get to where we’re going.  However, some of what we know about, or suspect, about our past is uncomfortable, or even horrifying, but these things can neither be ignored or erased.

For many, many years, society has learned, mostly through oral histories, of contemptible...

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It seems that every year, Labour Day weekend is seen as the end of the summer vacation season, and that’s about it.  For many of us, Labour Day itself is the one last splash before children go back to school and home-life returns to some sense of normalcy.

I see Labour Day as a symbol or a reminder, kind of like Remembrance Day is to many.  Yes, my father fought in the second great war and my grandfather before him in the first, so I don’t mean to disparage November 11.  What I’m talking about is the other great struggle, the one endured by Labour, to fight for a better life for workers in this...